09/04/2026
WW2 Technology Camp Evans played a Major role in developing and managing the manufacturing of during WW2 blunted the impact of this N**i super weapon. The (SCR-584 RADAR, which directed the aiming of artillery guns with the proximity fuse were key to shooting these buzz bombs out of the skies
The launch ramp still points at London. The bearing is 328 degrees. The target is 206 kilometres away.
The V1 offensive opened on the night of 12 to 13 June 1944, and local records name this ramp and Mont Gournoy as the sites that fired the first V1s in Seine-Maritime. Ten flying bombs were launched that night. Four failed on the ramps. Two crashed into the Channel. Four crossed the English coast, and one hit the railway bridge over Grove Road in Bethnal Green, killing six people. Whether the one fired from here was among the four is not recorded.
This is Site Nr 161, in the forest of Eu at Guerville, one of nineteen launch sites built nearby. Flak-Regiment 155(W), under Oberst Max Wachtel, ran the campaign against England. The site went up in the winter of 1943 to 1944 as a modified site: minimal concrete, wooden huts, netting strung between the trees. Quick to build, quick to repair, hard to find.
Allied aircraft photographed it within weeks and the bombing began in early July. The craters are still in the ground, and the compressor garage carries the damage from a 250kg bomb. In August 1944 the crews abandoned the site and withdrew north.
Visited today on a battlefield tour with three clients from the UK.
